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Assignment for Friday, 09.11.20

Dear Elementary Latinists,

For Friday, September 11, ONLY students with last names ending in A through K should do the following.

WRITING

Due noon (EST) via email.

  • Translate Narrative B (p. 27) into clear English. When typing out your translation please break the passage into individual sentences, each starting on a new line with a new number. There are seven sentences in all.

IMPORTANT: Please follow the formatting requirements for written work.

READING OUT LOUD

DC

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Assignment for Thursday, 09.10.20

Dear Elementary Latinists,

For Thursday, September 10, please do the following.

READING

Shelmerdine, Chapter 4 on the not-unrelated concepts of the ablative case, prepositional phrases, and adverbs:

  • The Adverb (#21, p. 29)
  • The Preposition (#22, pp. 29–30)
  • Ablative Case (#23, pp. 30)

Note any questions along the way.

DC

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Assignment for Wednesday, 09.09.20

Dear Elementary Latinists,

For Wednesday, September 9, ONLY students with last names ending in L through Z should do the following.

WRITING

Due noon (EST) via email.

  • Translate Narrative B (p. 27) into clear English. When typing out your translation please break the passage into individual sentences, each starting on a new line with a new number. There are seven sentences in all.

IMPORTANT: Please follow the formatting requirements for written work.

READING OUT LOUD

DC

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Assignment for Tuesday, 09.08.20

Dear Elementary Latinists,

For Tuesday, September 8, please do the following.

READING

Shelmerdine, Chapter 3 on the primary functions of the dative and genitive cases, and on nuances of reading:

  • Genitive Case: Possession, Partitive (#18, p. 24)
  • Dative Case (#19, p. 25)
  • Expectations (Reading) (#20, pp. 25–6)

Note any questions along the way.

DC

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Assignment for Monday, 09.07.20

Dear Elementary Latinists,

For Monday, September 7, please do the following.

READING

Shelmerdine, Chapter 2, on some fundamentals of reading Latin:

  • The Conjunction (#14, p. 18)
  • Reading Latin: Using Expectations (#15, pp. 18–19)

Shelmerdine, Chapter 3, on giving commands:

  • Imperative: Commands (#16, p. 23)
  • Vocative Case: Direct Address (#17, p. 24)

VOCABULARY

Due by 9:00 AM (EST) by email.

Write a one-paragraph short story (6–8 sentences) in which you feature English derivatives from 75% of the Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 vocabulary (p. 20 and p. 28).

As before, use the English words naturally in your prose, but put the Latin words from which they are derived in parentheses immediately afterward.

When listing the Latin words, use the first form of a noun and the infinitive form of a verb.

IMPORTANT: Please follow the formatting requirements for written work.

Please let me know if you have questions.

DC

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Assignment for Friday, 09.04.20

Dear Elementary Latinists,

For Friday, September 4, ONLY students with last names ending in L through Z should do the following.

WRITING

Due noon (EST) via email.

  • Translate all of the Latin sentences in Exercise 6 (Shelmerdine, p. 10) into English.

IMPORTANT: Please follow the formatting requirements for written work.

DC

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Assignment for Thursday, 09.03.20

Dear Elementary Latinists,

For Thursday, September 3, please do the following.

READING

Shelmerdine, Chapter 2 on the first and second declensions:

  • First Declension (#12, pp. 15–16)
  • Second Declension: Masculine (#13a, p. 16)
  • Second Declension: Neuter (#13b, pp. 17–18)

Note any questions along the way.

DC

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Assignment for Wednesday, 09.02.20

Dear Elementary Latinists,

For Wednesday, September 2, ONLY students with last names ending in A through K should do the following.

WRITING

Due noon (EST) via email.

  • Translate all of the Latin sentences in Exercise 6 (Shelmerdine, p. 10) into English.

IMPORTANT: Please follow the formatting requirements for written work.

DC

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Assignment for Tuesday, 09.01.20

Dear Elementary Latinists,

For Tuesday, September 1, please do the following.

READING

Shelmerdine, Chapter 2 on the fundamentals of Latin nouns:

  • Latin Cases (#8a, p. 13)
  • Nominative and Accusative Case Uses (#8b, pp. 13–14)
  • The Noun (#9, p. 14)
  • Gender (#10, pp. 14–15)
  • Dictionary (#11, p. 15)

Note any questions along the way.

DC

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Assignment for Monday, 08.31.20

Dear Elementary Latinists,

For Monday, August 31, please do the following.

READING

Shelmerdine, Chapter 1, on forming basic Latin verbs:

  • The Verb, Present Active Indicative, Present Active Infinitive (#5, pp. 7–9)
  • Principal Parts (#6, p. 9)
  • Indicative Uses: Statements and Questions (#7a, p. 9)
  • Infinitive Use: Complementary (#7b, pp. 9–10)

Please note any questions along the way. NOTE: Shelmerdine will cover some material my lecture did not (and vice versa).

VOCABULARY

Due by 9:00 AM (EST) by email.

Write a one-paragraph short story (6–8 sentences) in which you feature English derivatives from 75% of the Chapter 1 vocabulary (p. 11).

Use the English words naturally in your prose, but put the Latin words from which they are derived in parentheses immediately afterward.

EXAMPLE: Janice aspired to a nautical (nauta) life, but fortune (fortuna) labored (laborare) against her.

When listing the Latin words, use the first form of a noun and the infinitive form of a verb.

Finally, use the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) advanced etymology search, as demonstrated in class, to help you uncover useful English words. Alternatively, you can consult the “Derivatives” section of our textbook (immediately following the Vocabulary list) for a full slate of English words to try out in your story; look them up in the OED if you don’t know what they mean.

IMPORTANT: Please follow the formatting requirements for written work.

Please let me know if you have questions.

DC

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